Music by
Richard
Rogers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
Adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Tales of the
South Pacific"
Book by Oscar Hammerstein
II and Joshua Logan (1949) adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by
James A Michener.
Original stage production directed by Joshua Logan
South Pacific was an
immediate hit on Broadway in 1949, and a successful film version followed in
1958. Adapted from James A Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, it
combines passionate romance in a South Seas paradise, with the realities of
a world at war.
On a small South Pacific
island, Nellie Forbush, a US Navy nurse, falls for a mysterious French
planter whose life-style could not be more different from the conservatism
of her own Arkansas background. Meanwhile, Lt Joe Cable arrives to carry out
a top-secret spying mission against the Japanese fleet from behind enemy
lines. He is befriended by a Tonkinese trader, Bloody Mary, and soon becomes
involved with her beautiful young daughter...
The Hexagon
Reading
Tuesday 24th April to
Saturday 28th April 2007
Cast:
| Ensign Nellie Forbush | Lorraine Meechan | |
| Emile de Becque | Brian Bretney | |
| Lt Joseph Cable | Paul Stoneley | |
| Bloody Mary | Jessamy Vincent | |
| Luther Billis | Stephen Cox | |
| Capt. George Brackett | Peter Cox | |
| Liat, Mary's daughter | Nicci Rodie | |
| Ngana, Emile's daughter | Freya Wilson & Abigail Rees |
|
| Jerome, Emile's son | Douglas Faulkner & David Schult | |
| Henry, Emile's servant | Steve Hannan | |
| Bloody Mary's Assistant | Francesca Eggleton & Andrew Slade | |
| Yeoman Herbert Quale | Josh Eggleton | |
| Stewpot | Nigel Antell | |
| Professor | Chris Goodchild | |
| Cmdr William Harbison | Peter Hubbard | |
| Lt Buzz Adams | Michael Schult |
South Pacific
